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Source of Useful Traits Chapter 8 Source of Useful Traits Leonard W. Panella, Piergiorgio Stevanato, Ourania Pavli and George Skaracis Abstract In the late 1800s, there already was speculation that Beta maritima might provide a reservoir of resistance genes that could be utilized in sugar beet breeding. European researchers had crossed Beta maritima and sugar beet and observed many traits in the hybrid progeny. It is impossible to estimate how widely Beta maritima was used in the production of commercial varieties, because most of the germplasm exchanges were informal and are difficult to document. Often these crosses of sugar beet with sea beet germplasm contained undesirable traits, e.g., annualism, elongated crowns, fangy roots, high fiber, red pigment (in root, leaf, or petiole) and much lower sucrose production. It is believed that lack of acceptance of Beta maritima as a reservoir of genes was because most of the evaluations of the progeny were done in early generations: The reactions of the hybrids vulgaris × maritima were not impressive, and it is clear now that they were not adequately studied in the later generations. Keywords Disease resistance · Rhizomania · Cercospora · Nematodes · Drought · Salt stress · Root rot · Curly top · Virus yellows · Powdery mildew · Polymyxa betae Contrary to other species of the genus Beta, the evolutionary proximity between the sea beet and the cultivated types favors casual crosses (Hjerdin et al. 1994). Important characters of resistance to diseases, currently present in cultivated varieties, have been isolated from wild material (Table 8.1). According to several authors, Beta maritima is also an important means to increase the genetic diversity of cultivated types, now rather narrow from a domestication bottleneck and continuous selection for improve- ment of production and quality traits (Bosemark 1979; de Bock 1986; Doney 1998; L. W. Panella (B) Colorado State University, 3944 Century Dr., Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA e-mail: [email protected] P. Stevanato DAFNAE, University of Padua, Padova, Italy O. Pavli · G. Skaracis Agricultural University of Athens, Athina, Greece This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection 167 in the U.S.; foreign copyright protection may apply 2020 E. Biancardi et al. (eds.), Beta maritima, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28748-1_8 168 L. W. Panella et al. Table 8.1 Useful traits in the Genus Beta (Frese 2011, personal communication) Beta and Patellifolia Taxa TRAIT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Annual life cycle Monogermity Hard seedeness Seed shattering CMS Genetic male sterility Salt tolerance Frost tolerance Curly Top Yellowing viruses BYV Beet mild yellowing virus BMYV Beet mosaic virus BMV Beet necrotic yellow vein virus BNYVV Yellow wilt Peronospora farinosa Erysiphe betae Rhizoctonia solani Cercospora beticola Polymyxa betae Black leg disease Erwinia subsp. Heterodera schachtii Heterodera trifolii Meloidogyne hapla Meloidogyne incognita Meloidogyne javanica Meloidogyne arenaria Myzus persicae Pegomya spp. 1. Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris (Bv), 2. Bv leaf beet group, 3. Bv garden beet group, 4. Bv fodder beet, group, 5. Bv sugar beet group, 6. Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima,7.Bv subsp. adanensis, 8. Beta (Beta) macrocarpa,9.Beta patulaI, 10. Beta corolliflora, 11. Beta macrorhiza, 12. Beta lomatogona, 13. Beta intermedia, 14. Beta trigyna, 15. Beta nana, 16. Patellifolia (Patellifolia ) procumbens, 17. Patellifolia webbiana, 18. Patellifolia patellaris 8 Source of Useful Traits 169 Jung et al. 1993; McGrath et al. 1999). This is especially true of sugar beet varieties, due to the common origin from the White Silesian Beet (Achard 1803; Fischer 1989), whose variability, according to Evans and Weir (1981), could have been enhanced by crosses with North Atlantic sea beet. Moreover, this narrowing of genetic diversity was increased through the widespread use both of Owen’s cytoplasmic genetic male sterility (CMS) and the monogermy trait transferred to the current varieties by means of inbred lines (Jung et al. 1993; Owen 1945; Savitsky 1952). The attempts to trans- fer useful traits from sea beet are still underway. In a recent paper, Campbell (2010) described the performance of four crosses between Beta maritima and commercial varieties, which performed quite well, both in yield and resistance to some diseases (Rhizoctonia root and crown rot, rhizomania, powdery mildew, Cercospora leaf spot, Aphanomyces root rot, and Fusarium yellows). However, the association of negative characters with the traits to be transferred often has made the improvement of cultivated genotypes difficult (Coons 1975; Mita et al. 1991). The major problems associated with such hybridizations are (1) the dominance of the annual life cycle in some wild forms, (2) the very bad shape of the root, (3) woodiness of roots, (4) elongated and multiple crowns, (5) low sugar content, (6) poor root yield, (7) low processing quality (Oltmann et al. 1984), (8) growth habit of the seed stalk, (9) prostrate seed stalk, (10) early seed shattering, etc. (Rasmussen 1932; van Geyt et al. 1990). Similar problems also arise when crossing sea beet with fodder, leaf, and garden beets. Several backcrosses and repeated selection cycles are necessary before such hybrids can acquire a satisfactory morphology and sufficient agronomic qualities (de Bock 1986; Munerati 1932). The ancestors of the modern crops are defined as “crop wild relatives” (CWR), which also include other species closely related to them (Hajjar and Hodgkin 2007). Their commercial worth is invaluable (www.biodiversityinterna-tional.org). Many wild species, including Beta maritima, are threatened through reduction, degradation, or fragmentation of their habitat. Therefore, we need to identify not only the species to be protected in their respective areas but also the facilities for their in situ and ex situ conservation (Frese and Germeier 2009). Maxted et al. (2006) subdivided the species of the genus Beta into gene pools (GP) (Harlan and de Wet 1971) according to the difficulty of using the pool as a source of traits for the beet crops: (1) primary gene pool includes the cultivated forms (GP-1A) and the wild or weedy forms of the crop (GP-1B); (2) secondary gene pool (GP-2) includes the less closely related species from which gene transfer to the crop is difficult, but possible, using conventional breeding techniques; and (3) tertiary gene pool (GP-3) includes the species from which gene transfer to the crop is impossible or requires sophisticated techniques. Consequently, Beta maritima was classified as explained in Table 6.2. A PGR Forum was organized both to better define CWR and to compile a list of the more endangered species (Ford-Lloyd et al. 2009). 170 L. W. Panella et al. 8.1 Resistances to Biotic Stresses Most of the breeding work with Beta maritima has been to use it as a source of resistance to varied pests and diseases. Lewellen (1992) theorized that because the sugar beet and the white Silesian fodder beet source were developed and produced in the temperate climate of Northern Europe, there was less pressure to maintain plant resistance to biotic stress because of the mild disease incidence and “As a consequence, this narrowly based germplasm may never have had or may have lost significant levels of genetic variability for disease resistance or the factors that condi- tion disease resistance occur in the germplasm at low frequencies” (Lewellen 1992). However, once sugar beet production moved out of Northern Europe, east into Russia and Asia, south into Mediterranean Europe and North Africa, and west into England and North and South America, many new diseases endemic to these areas limited production of sugar beet (Lewellen 1992). The first documented instance of successfully transferring disease resistance from sea beet to sugar beet was by Munerati using sea beet growing in the Po Delta as a source of resistance to Cercospora leaf spot (Munerati et al. 1913a). Following Munerati’s success, other European researchers began working with Beta maritima as a source of disease resistance (Margara and Touvin 1955; Schlösser 1957; Zossi- movich 1939; Asher et al. 2001a). Nonetheless, for many of the reasons enumerated by Coons (1975), it is unlikely that much of this effort resulted in commercial vari- eties with sea beet in their genetic background, and due to the proprietary status of commercial germplasm, this information has not found its way into the literature. 8.1.1 Yellowing Viruses Virus yellows (VY) is an important disease of sugar beet (Fig. 8.1). It is most severe and persistent in mild maritime climates such as Pacific coastal states of the USA, Western Europe, and Chile. These climates provide a long season for sugar beet for both root and seed crops, give a potentially continuous reservoir of virus–host sources, and favor the overwinter survival of the aphid species that transmit the viruses. VY is caused by the closterovirus Beet yellows virus (BYV), and the poleroviruses Beet western yellows virus (BWYV), Beet chlorosis virus (BChV) (Duffus and Liu 1991; Liu et al. 1999), and Beet mild yellows virus (BMYV). The principal aphid vector is the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae Sulzer) (Watson 1940) but many other species are known to vector one or more of these viruses. BMYV, BChV, and BYV can decrease sugar yield by at least 30%, 24%, and 49%, respectively (Smith and Hallsworth 1990; Stevens et al. 2004). Breeding for resistance in sugar beet started in Europe in 1948 and in 1957 in the USA (Bennett 1960; de Biaggi 2005;Duffus1973; Duffus and Ruppel 1993; Hauser et al. 2000; Luterbacher et al. 2004; McFarlane and Bennett 1963; Rietberg and Hijner 1956; Stevens et al. 2004, 2005, 2006). 8 Source of Useful Traits 171 Fig. 8.1 Vein of beet yellows virus on sugar beet Likely, the agents that cause VY have coevolved with Beta spp. It would seem then that a desirable place to search for high host–plant resistance to one or more of the viruses would be in the primary and secondary germplasms (Luterbacher et al.
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